This page is the complete list of what the Ditch Assist app does — from RTK surveying and Slope-IQ design through automatic blade control, tile installation, LiDAR mapping, and multi-day job management. All of it ships in one Android app, included with every kit. No subscription, no per-mode activation, no feature tiers.
Tap any feature card for the full story — where to find it in the app and how to use it.
Every workflow below is a first-class mode with its own guided setup, design tools, and grading screen. Tap one for the full story on that job.
Survey the run, let Slope-IQ design the minimum-cut drain, and grade it automatically with a scraper, ditcher, or pull dozer.
Survey channel and berm, then cut the channel and place the spoil so cut and fill balance.
Run 3D field designs from OptiSurface, Ezigrade, Geo-Surface Pro, and other design tools — XYZP, AGD, or LandXML.
Set a constant slope and go — no survey required. The laser-replacement mode.
Depth-constrained tile design and uphill installation with Automatic Rock Hit Recovery.
Flat pads and dead-level basins from a benchmark or your current blade position.
Follow the contour with lightbar steering — levees, contour rice, and water management berms.
Bucket-tip depth and grade guidance with the DIG kit — clean ditches and drains from the cab.
Prepare a field before you work it — cached imagery, LiDAR elevation, flow paths, and ponding maps.
Every design starts with ground truth. Ditch Assist records it with the RTK receiver you already have — no separate survey gear, no laser tripod.
Drive the planned route and the app records centimeter-accurate terrain, drawing the elevation profile live as you go.
More →Start any workflow from the Home screen and the wizard walks you straight into the Survey screen. Tap Start Survey and drive the planned route at a comfortable speed — the app logs an elevation point at your chosen interval and draws the ground profile on the chart in real time, with the route shown on the map beside it.
Where you'll find it: Home → pick a workflow (Ditching, Tiling, Terracing…) → the Survey screen opens as the first step. The survey interval and implement width live in Settings.
How to use it: raise the implement to transport, tap Start, drive the line you intend to cut, and tap Stop at the end. Save it with a name — the design tools open right from the finished survey.
Water in the ditch? Pause, drive around, resume — the gap is bridged automatically and drawn dashed so you know it's interpolated.
More →Standing water, a fence crossing, or a soft spot doesn't have to ruin a survey. Pause recording, drive around the obstacle on solid ground, position yourself back on the line, and resume — the app bridges the gap with a straight line between the last point before and the first point after.
Where you'll find it: the Pause / Resume button sits in the survey sidebar while recording is active.
How to use it: tap Pause before you leave the line, and Resume once you're back on it past the obstacle. The bridged span draws dashed on both the profile chart and the map, so you always know which stretch is interpolated rather than measured.
Can't drive the run at all? Take individual point shots at the stations you can reach; elevations between shots are interpolated into a usable profile.
More →Some runs can't be driven continuously at all — a ditch full of water, a crop you don't want to track through. Shot mode turns the survey into discrete station shots: drive or walk to each spot you can reach, log a point, and move on. The app interpolates the elevations between your shots into a continuous profile you can design from.
Where you'll find it: in the survey sidebar, switch the capture toggle from Drive to Shots. The Start button becomes a Log Point button.
How to use it: position the machine at a station, hold still, tap Log Point, and drive to the next one. Fewer, well-chosen shots at grade breaks beat many random ones.
Shoot a point, drive, and read the live grade between it and your position — a quick slope check without recording a survey.
More →Sometimes you don't need a survey — you just need to know which way the water runs and how hard. Grade Check is a live two-point slope readout: shoot a reference point, then drive; the app continuously shows the grade, distance, and elevation change between that point and wherever you are now, labelled uphill or downhill.
Where you'll find it: in the survey sidebar while in Shots mode — tap Grade Check.
How to use it: park at one end, set the reference, drive to the other end, and read the result. Nothing is recorded, so use it freely — checking an outlet before you commit, verifying a finished cut, or settling an argument about which end is higher.
Drive a grid or perimeter to build an elevation model of an entire field — feeding levee, terracing, and tiling design work.
More →Contour work needs more than a single line — it needs the whole field's shape. The Field Survey screen records a free-drive survey across the field: drive a grid, a spiral, or whatever pattern covers the ground, and the app builds an elevation model from the drive.
Where you'll find it: the Levee, Land Forming, and Tiling wizards offer Field Survey as a data source when a workflow needs full-field elevation; it opens as its own screen with Start/Pause, Log Point, and Finish & Save controls.
How to use it: drive passes across the field roughly at your swath width, use Pause when crossing areas you don't want recorded, and Finish & Save. The saved field survey is then available as a terrain source for contour generation and design work in those workflows.
The app measures antenna-to-blade height for you with RTK, so transport-position surveys come out at true ground elevation.
More →You survey with the implement raised in transport, but the design targets the ground. The blade-height setting closes that gap — and instead of measuring with a tape, the app can measure it for you using RTK itself.
Where you'll find it: the app prompts for blade height before your first survey; you can revisit it any time under Settings, where the Auto Measure option lives.
How to use it: with Auto Measure, set the blade on the ground and capture, then raise to your normal transport position and capture again — the difference is your blade height, measured to RTK precision. Every survey point is then automatically corrected from antenna height to true ground elevation.
Design in the cab, on the spot. Every designer shows the survey and the proposed grade on one interactive profile chart before you commit.
One tap designs a smooth ditch line that always drains — minimum cut, minimum grade respected, outlet direction auto-detected, cut volume estimated.
More →Slope-IQ is the heart of the Ditching workflow. Feed it a survey and it computes a smooth design line that always falls toward the outlet, honors your minimum grade, and moves as little dirt as possible — then shows you the estimated cut volume before you touch the ground.
Where you'll find it: after finishing or loading a ditch survey, the Slope-IQ dialog opens automatically (or from the sidebar design button). Best-Fit is the first tab.
How to use it: check the auto-detected outlet direction (tap the Outlet toggle if it guessed wrong), set your minimum grade and maximum cut if needed, and Apply. The design draws over the survey on the chart — green where you'll cut, with the volume estimate updating as you adjust. Then it's straight to the Grade screen.
Take control when you want it: pin the design through chosen survey points (Guided) or place and drag your own vertices (Freeform) — in both the ditch and tile designers.
More →When you know something the optimizer doesn't — a culvert invert, a tile inlet, a stretch that must not be touched — take over. Guided mode pins the design through survey points you choose and joins them with straight grade segments that still respect minimum grade. Freeform removes the rules entirely: drop vertices anywhere on the chart, drag them, delete them.
Where you'll find it: as tabs in both the Slope-IQ dialog (Ditching) and the Tile Design dialog (Tiling).
How to use it: in Guided, tap survey points on the chart to mark them as control points. In Freeform, tap empty chart space to add a vertex and drag to shape the line. Undo steps back one edit at a time, and the tile designer flags any vertex that violates your depth band rather than silently moving it.
Depth-constrained tile design around minimum cover, target depth, and your plow's limits — with Required Start Depth and amber/red shading where cover runs shallow or deep.
More →Tile design is a box, not a line: the pipe must stay below minimum cover, above maximum depth, and on continuous positive grade to the outlet. Tile-Best-Fit fits the profile inside that box automatically and tells you the Required Start Depth at the outlet before you drop the plow.
Where you'll find it: the Tile Design dialog opens after a tile-run survey in the Tiling workflow. Depth limits live right in the dialog; your defaults are in Settings.
How to use it: set minimum, target, and maximum depth, and Apply. The chart shades cover violations — amber where the pipe would run too shallow, red where too deep — so a problem run is obvious before installation. Then install uphill from the outlet with the design as the target.
Type a slope, set the starting elevation from your blade, and grade — the fastest path from cab to cutting.
More →The straightest replacement for a laser: one constant slope from a known starting point, no survey needed. Everything a single-grade laser did, without the tripod, and it turns corners.
Where you'll find it: pick Simple Grading from the Home screen; the design bar opens before grading.
How to use it: enter the slope as a percentage, then set the starting elevation — the easiest way is putting the blade on the ground where grade begins and using the current position. Tap Start and drive; the target falls (or climbs) at your set grade along the distance you travel, whichever direction you steer. An optional survey pass first lets you sanity-check the slope against the real ground on the profile chart.
Dual channel-and-berm survey with a balanced design, so the channel cut builds the berm in the same passes.
More →Terraces are two jobs in one — cut a channel, build a berm — and the design ties them together so the spoil from one becomes the fill for the other.
Where you'll find it: the Terracing workflow card on Home. The wizard walks you through surveying the channel line and the berm line, then opens the terrace design dialog.
How to use it: survey both lines, set the channel grade and the minimum berm height, and apply. Grading then runs in phases — the app targets the channel cut first and the berm build after, and the phase indicator on the grading screen keeps you oriented. Contour-Guided Terracing is also available where terraces should follow the field's contours from a LiDAR or surveyed elevation model.
Run XYZP and AGD surface designs from OptiSurface, Ezigrade, and Geo-Surface Pro, or import LandXML TIN surfaces with automatic State Plane / UTM projection and a 3D preview. Cut/fill maps render on the field map.
More →If the design was made in the office, the app runs it in the field. XYZP and AGD surface files from OptiSurface, Ezigrade, Geo-Surface Pro, and similar tools import directly, as do LandXML TIN surfaces from survey-grade software — including automatic State Plane and UTM coordinate projection so the surface lands exactly where it should on the map.
Where you'll find it: the Land Forming workflow's design step offers file import; LandXML has its own import wizard with an interactive 3D preview of the surface before you accept it.
How to use it: copy the file to the tablet, pick it in the import dialog, review the preview, and apply. The design renders as a color-coded cut/fill map over the field, so you can see at a glance where dirt is coming from and going to as you work.
The app compares RTK elevation against the design many times a second and drives the hydraulics to hold grade — while you just drive the line.
Live RTK positions stream to the hydraulic controller with the exact target elevation for every spot along the design — up and down without you touching a lever.
More →This is the core loop: several times a second the app takes the RTK position, finds the design target for exactly that spot, and commands the hydraulic controller to close the gap. You drive; the blade rides the design.
Where you'll find it: the Start button on any grading screen, once a design is loaded and the controller is connected.
How to use it: line up on the run, tap Start, and drive at a steady working speed. The live error readout shows how far the blade is from target; the deadband keeps the valve calm when you're on grade. Tap Stop (or Hold for a temporary pause) whenever you need the hydraulics back.
Deep cuts happen in passes: Auto-Nudge offsets the target above final grade and steps it down as you advance passes, so the machine is never asked to take more than it can pull.
More →A 12-inch cut isn't one pass — it's several, each taking what the machine can actually pull. Auto-Nudge manages that for you: it holds the working target a set amount above final grade and steps it down one increment each time you advance the pass, until the last pass lands on the design.
Where you'll find it: the app offers Auto-Nudge when a design has deep cuts; the toggle and the Pass +/− buttons live in the grading sidebar.
How to use it: accept the prompt (or flip the toggle), set your max cut per pass in Settings, and grade normally. When a pass stops moving dirt, tap Pass + and run it again. The pass counter and current-versus-final target readouts keep you oriented the whole way down.
Nudge the target up or down in inch steps without editing the design, or Hold to take manual control mid-run and Resume exactly where you left off.
More →Real fields need small judgment calls: shave a little less here, ride a touch higher through the wet spot. Nudge shifts the working target by a fixed step per tap without touching the underlying design, so the change is always visible and always reversible.
Where you'll find it: Nudge Up / Nudge Down buttons in the grading sidebar (they swap places with the pass buttons when Auto-Nudge is on); Hold sits next to Start.
How to use it: tap to nudge in steps — the step size is configurable in Settings, and the offset shows on screen until you clear it. Hold pauses automatic commands while keeping everything live on screen, then Resume hands the blade back to the controller.
In Manual Grade, change the slope mid-run and the profile chart stitches every segment onto one continuous station line.
More →Manual Grade mode is for runs you shape as you go — and real runs change slope partway. Change Grade lets you switch from, say, 0.3% to 0.15% mid-run without stopping: the new segment starts from the elevation you're at, so there's never a step in the finished surface.
Where you'll find it: the Change Grade control in the Manual Grade screen's grade bar while grading.
How to use it: tap it, enter the new slope, and keep driving. The profile chart stitches every segment end-to-end on one continuous station axis, so the whole run reads as a single profile — including on an excavator with the DIG kit, where 0% level cuts are allowed too.
Tiling-mode protection both directions: paced descent so the plow eases back to grade instead of diving, and automatic target lift when rock or hardpan forces the plow up.
More →Tile plows have a failure mode in each direction. Ask a pitched plow to chase a target far below the boot and it noses down and cuts a belly below design; hit rock and the plow rides up off grade. Tiling mode guards both sides automatically — the Descent Governor paces downward target changes so the plow eases back to grade at a controlled rate, and Automatic Rock Hit Recovery detects sustained ride-up and lifts the target by the measured amount instead of diving after the original line.
Where you'll find it: both are always on in the Tiling workflow — nothing to mount, wire, or calibrate.
How to use it: you don't have to do anything. A once-per-session notice explains the behavior, and when a rock hit fires you get an alert with the correction applied so you can decide whether to re-run the stretch.
A coverage grid paints where you've graded, the profile turns green as you reach grade, and chevrons, a target gauge, and audio alerts keep you on the line without staring at numbers.
More →Grading screens are built to be read at a glance from a bouncing cab. The map paints a coverage grid over everywhere the blade has worked; the profile chart draws your graded surface over the design and turns it green where you've reached grade; chevron arrows point up or down with size showing how far off you are.
Where you'll find it: all of it is on the grading screens automatically — the coverage layer on the map, the profile chart panel, chevrons beside the map, and the right-side target gauge showing the blade against the current and final targets.
How to use it: configure the inches-per-arrow sensitivity and the on-grade audio alert in Settings, then work by color and sound: green profile and a quiet tablet means move on; the coverage map shows what's left.
RTK bases move, jobs span days, and elevation frames drift. Benchmarks keep every survey, design, and pass on one vertical reference — and the app watches your GPS health the whole time.
Set the blade on a known spot and calibrate in seconds — the app aligns today's GPS frame with the survey your design was built from.
More →Restart an RTK base and its elevation frame can land somewhere new — every reading shifts by the same amount, and yesterday's design no longer matches today's GPS. Benchmark calibration measures that shift once and corrects everything: displays, designs, and the targets sent to the controller.
Where you'll find it: tap the BM badge on the stats bar of any survey or grading screen to open the Benchmark dialog. The badge is green when calibrated, grey when not.
How to use it: put the blade on a spot with a known elevation — a saved benchmark, a surveyed point, or a manual entry — and confirm. The offset applies instantly and persists until you recalibrate.
Drop a named benchmark at a repeatable spot, and on any later visit the app finds the nearest one, guides you back to it, and recalibrates — the same reference across base moves and multi-day jobs.
More →The reliable way to keep a multi-day job on one vertical reference: benchmark a physical spot you can park on again — the field entrance, a culvert end — and return to it each visit.
Where you'll find it: in the Benchmark dialog, Save This Spot as a BM creates one where you're parked (the app averages the position for a few seconds for a solid fix). Saved benchmarks appear as flags on the map and in the benchmark picker, nearest first.
How to use it: on day one, save the benchmark before you survey. On every return, park on the spot, open the dialog — the nearest saved benchmark is selected automatically when you're within range, with your distance to it shown — and recalibrate. Surveys, designs, and half-finished jobs from any day now share the same reference, even after the base moved.
Re-benchmarking on a section already cut to grade? Calibrate against the design elevation instead of the original ground.
More →Returning to a half-finished run, the ground under your blade might already be cut to design — so calibrating against the original surveyed ground there would be wrong. The reference calibration offers both frames.
Where you'll find it: in the Benchmark dialog's reference calibration, a toggle selects Surveyed ground or Design grade.
How to use it: park on a stretch you've already finished, choose Design grade, and calibrate — the app matches your blade to the design elevation at that station. On untouched ground, use Surveyed ground as usual. Either way you're back on the job's reference in seconds without hunting for undisturbed dirt.
One tap from Home shows controller and GNSS health — fix quality, correction age, live position — plus hold-to-move valve tests before you head to the field.
More →Find the problem in the yard, not three passes into the run. Pre-Flight Checks is a one-screen health check for the whole rig: connection status, RTK fix quality with green/yellow/red grading, correction and update age, and your full-precision position.
Where you'll find it: the orange Pre-Flight Checks button on the Home screen.
How to use it: connect (or switch) your controller or GPS source right from the popover, confirm the GNSS numbers are green, then use the hold-to-move Raise / Lower valve tests to confirm the hydraulics respond in the right directions. If something's wrong, you know before you leave the approach.
If the design target and your current elevation disagree by more than your threshold at Start, the app warns you before the blade moves — catching stale benchmarks and wrong-field designs.
More →The most expensive mistakes happen in the first second — starting with yesterday's benchmark after the base moved, or with the wrong field's design loaded. At every Start, the app compares the design target at your position against your live elevation, and if they disagree beyond your threshold it stops to tell you, in plain terms, which way and how far the blade would move.
Where you'll find it: it runs automatically at Start; the warning threshold is configurable in Settings under Pre-Start Safety.
How to use it: when the yellow dialog appears, read it before tapping Start Anyway. Nine times out of ten it fires because the benchmark needs recalibrating — a ten-second fix that just saved a mis-cut run.
If GPS data stalls or the tablet drops off the controller's WiFi, grading halts within about a second and the screen dims stale readouts — the blade never runs on old data.
More →Automatic hydraulics must never act on stale data. The app watches the data stream and the WiFi link continuously: if the tablet roams off the controller's network, grading halts within about a second; if GPS data goes quiet, readouts visibly dim so you can see the numbers are frozen, and the connection is torn down safely if data doesn't return. Backgrounding the app or navigating away from the grading screen also stops automatic control.
Where you'll find it: nowhere — it's always on, with nothing to configure.
How to use it: if a red disconnect banner appears, the blade has already been halted. Reconnect from the workflow's connection step or Pre-Flight Checks and resume where you left off.
See the water before you move dirt. The app pulls public LiDAR, runs drainage analysis, and carries your maps into fields with no signal.
Draw a boundary and the app fetches LiDAR elevation for the field (US 3DEP and Canadian HRDEM), caches satellite imagery, and generates flow-path and ponding maps in the cloud.
More →Prepare Field is the do-it-all button for a new field: one boundary, one name, and the app fetches public LiDAR elevation (US 3DEP or Canadian HRDEM coverage), caches the satellite imagery for offline use, and submits the terrain for cloud drainage analysis — flow paths, ponding, and depression maps that show where the water wants to go.
Where you'll find it: the LiDAR & Mapping workflow card on Home. It unlocks the first time the app sees a real controller connection.
How to use it: draw the boundary on the map (do this part with internet), pick which products you want, and let it run. Everything saves to the tablet — the saved elevation model then feeds Levee, Contour Tiling, Contour-Guided Terracing, and the tap-for-elevation checker, all fully offline.
Generate contours from any saved elevation model and follow them with AB-line and lightbar steering — for levees, contour tiling, and contour-guided terracing.
More →Some jobs follow the land instead of a line — levees on the contour, tile laterals along it, terraces guided by it. The app generates contour lines from any elevation model and steers you along them with a lightbar, exactly like following an AB line that happens to curve with the field.
Where you'll find it: the Levee workflow is built around it; Contour Tiling and Contour-Guided Terracing appear as options inside the Tiling and Terracing workflows.
How to use it: pick a terrain source — a saved LiDAR field, a whole-field survey, a point file, or a GeoTIFF DEM — choose the contour elevation or interval, and drive with the lightbar centered. Cross-track distance and steering arrows keep you on the curve at working speed.
Subscription LiDAR drainage layers — depressions, flow accumulation, watersheds — delivered straight into the app's map. More on LiDAR Drainage Mapping →
More →For operators who want drainage intelligence across whole farms, the LiDAR Drainage Mapping service delivers professionally processed layers — true depressions, flow accumulation, watershed boundaries — as downloadable field packages that render directly on the app's map.
Where you'll find it: the field browser inside the map's Layers dialog, once your subscription fields are set up. The LiDAR Drainage Mapping page covers plans and coverage.
How to use it: download your fields while on internet; afterwards the layers work fully offline. Toggle depressions on while planning a ditch route, or flow accumulation while deciding where the mains should run — the layers sit under your live survey and design lines with per-layer opacity control.
Overlay KML files, WMS services, GeoTIFF rasters, and georeferenced images on the field map, with opacity control per layer.
More →Bring your own context: tile plans from a contractor as KML, county imagery as WMS, an elevation raster as GeoTIFF, or an old paper map scanned and georeferenced as an image overlay. They all render on the field map under your live position.
Where you'll find it: the Layers button (FAB) on any map screen opens the layer manager — add, toggle, reorder, and set opacity per layer. The free Image Georeferencer tool on this site prepares image overlays.
How to use it: copy files to the tablet and add them from the Layers dialog, or point a WMS layer at a service URL. Layers persist between sessions, so the context you set up in the office is waiting in the field.
Satellite basemaps cache to the tablet, so guidance and mapping keep working in fields with no data coverage.
More →Fields don't come with cell coverage, so the app treats offline as the normal case. Satellite basemap tiles cache automatically as you view them, and the LiDAR field-prep flow caches a field's imagery deliberately, ahead of time, at multiple zoom levels.
Where you'll find it: automatic — no setting to enable. The deliberate per-field cache happens in LiDAR & Mapping → Prepare Field.
How to use it: open the field's map area once while you have internet (or run Prepare Field on it), and the imagery is on the tablet. Surveys, designs, layers, and saved LiDAR products are all stored locally anyway — the whole workflow runs signal-free.
Tap anywhere on the map to read the LiDAR elevation at that spot — quick answers to "which end is higher?" before you commit to a plan.
More →Once a field has a saved LiDAR elevation model, the map itself becomes a survey rod: tap any spot and read its elevation, in your units, without driving there.
Where you'll find it: an elevation-check button appears on the survey and grading maps whenever at least one saved LiDAR elevation model exists on the tablet.
How to use it: tap the button, pick which saved elevation model to read from if you have several, then tap points on the map. Checking an outlet against a field corner, comparing two possible routes, or confirming which way a flat-looking field actually falls takes seconds — before you commit the machine to a plan.
Surveys, designs, and grading jobs all save to the tablet and come back exactly as you left them — across app restarts, tablet swaps via export, and days between visits.
Organize everything by field: pick a field when you start work, see every surveyed, designed, and graded run in that field on one map, and keep benchmarks scoped to where they belong.
More →After a season, a tablet holds a lot of work. Field Mode files it the way you think about it — by field. With it on, you confirm which field you're in when starting any workflow, every survey, design, job, and benchmark is tagged to that field, and the browse lists filter accordingly.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Fields. It's off by default; turning it on changes nothing about your existing files, and turning it off returns the app to exactly how it was.
How to use it: enable it, create fields as you get to them, and work normally. The map gains a reference-layer toggle that draws every past run in the active field — surveys, designs, and completed grading — so you can see the whole field's history while planning the next ditch. Field Mode is in beta; it's stable in daily use and we'd love reports from early adopters.
A grading job saves its design, coverage, nudges, and pass state — resume tomorrow, recalibrate to your benchmark, and keep cutting.
More →A grading job is more than a design — it's the design plus everything that happened: coverage, graded terrain, nudge offsets, which pass you're on. Jobs capture all of it, so tomorrow starts where today stopped.
Where you'll find it: jobs save automatically while you grade; the Jobs browser is on the grading sidebar, and reopening a workflow offers your recent jobs.
How to use it: to resume, open the job, recalibrate to your saved benchmark if the base has been off, and Start — the coverage map, pass counter, and remaining work are exactly as you left them. Name jobs from the save dialog if you run several in one field.
Work in progress checkpoints itself. If the tablet dies mid-survey, the app recovers your points on restart.
More →Tablets die, batteries quit, and apps get killed by the OS at the worst moment. The app assumes all of it: in-progress surveys checkpoint as they record, grading jobs save continuously, and files are written so that an interruption mid-save can't corrupt what was already on disk.
Where you'll find it: nowhere — there's no setting, it's just how the app writes data.
How to use it: if the tablet shuts down mid-survey, reopen the app: it offers to recover the in-progress survey from the last checkpoint. Grading work is already in the job file. Worst case you lose the last few seconds, not the afternoon.
Share surveys and designs as KML or XYZ through the Android share sheet — for your agronomist, your records, or another machine.
More →Your data is yours, in formats anything can open: KML for Google Earth and mapping tools, XYZ point text for spreadsheets and design software.
Where you'll find it: the export options live in the survey/design browser dialogs — pick a file, choose Export, pick a format.
How to use it: the Android share sheet opens, so you can email it, drop it in cloud storage, or beam it to another tablet on the spot. It's also the simple way to move a survey to a second machine, hand a completed-work map to a landowner, or archive a season's ditches in your farm records.
The same app runs the Automation and Guidance Kits on implements and the DIG kit on excavators — and it's not picky about your GPS.
Connects to both hydraulic controller generations over WiFi and auto-detects which one is wired up.
More →Whether your kit shipped last month or years ago, the same app runs it. Both Ditch Assist controller generations are fully supported over the controller's own WiFi, and the app auto-detects which one it's talking to — no model numbers to look up.
Where you'll find it: every workflow's connection step; Pre-Flight Checks on Home offers the same connect options.
How to use it: join the controller's WiFi network in Android settings once, then connect from the app. Sensible valve defaults load for the detected controller type, and your tuning is remembered per type after that.
With the DIG kit, the app reads bucket-tip position for depth and grade guidance in every digging workflow — including level cuts at 0%.
More →On an excavator the working edge is the bucket tip, and the DIG kit's sensors track it through every swing and curl. The app reads that live bucket-tip position and runs its grading guidance from it — dig to a falling grade or a dead-level 0% floor, with the same chevrons and error readouts as the blade modes.
Where you'll find it: the Excavator workflow card on Home connects to the DIG module directly.
How to use it: connect, set your target grade in the grade bar (0% is allowed for level work), benchmark the bucket on a known spot, and dig — the display shows cut/fill at the tip in real time. If the link drops mid-job, the app reconnects automatically when the module comes back.
Standard NMEA over the controller, plus Bluetooth GNSS receivers for surveying and mapping — Emlid and other common RTK receivers just work.
More →Ditch Assist doesn't lock you to a GPS brand. The controller accepts any receiver that outputs standard NMEA — the same protocol every serious RTK receiver speaks — and the app can additionally pair directly with Bluetooth GNSS receivers for survey and mapping work without the controller powered up.
Where you'll find it: the connection step of each workflow offers controller, Bluetooth GNSS, and simulator sources; Bluetooth pairing has its own scan dialog.
How to use it: for grading, the receiver feeds the controller and everything is automatic. For scouting or surveying with a rover — an Emlid unit is the common choice — pair it over Bluetooth and survey without the machine running. The GPS status badge always shows fix quality, so you know when you're RTK-fixed versus float.
Response presets by blade size plus full PID and duty-cycle tuning for the hydraulics — dial in smooth control on your machine, not a generic one.
More →Every machine's hydraulics feel different — a small blade on a fast valve behaves nothing like a big scraper on a slow one. The app ships response presets by blade size that work out of the box, and opens full tuning when you want it: proportional/integral/derivative gains, minimum and maximum valve duty cycle, and raise/lower response rates.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Controller, with the presets front and center and the advanced numbers behind them.
How to use it: start with the preset that matches your implement and only touch the numbers if the blade hunts (lower the gain) or responds lazily (raise it). Settings persist per controller type, and your dealer can talk you through a tune over the phone using the same screen.
Every mode runs against a simulated machine and terrain — learn the workflow in the office before the season, no hardware connected.
More →The best time to learn the app is not with the machine idling and daylight burning. The built-in simulator stands in for the whole rig — GPS, terrain, and a machine that drives the route and responds to grading commands — so every workflow runs end to end with no hardware at all.
Where you'll find it: choose Simulator in any workflow's connection step, with a choice of terrain profiles and drive paths.
How to use it: run a full job in the office: survey, design with Slope-IQ, benchmark, grade, watch the coverage fill in. Train a new operator in an afternoon, or rehearse an unfamiliar workflow (first tile job?) before doing it for real. There's also a browser version to try before installing anything.
Twelve-hour sessions on a tablet bouncing across a field are the normal case, not the edge case.
A high-contrast sunlight theme for midday glare and a dark theme for early starts — big touch targets throughout.
More →A tablet that's readable at 6 a.m. is washed out at noon, and vice versa. The app ships two purpose-built themes: a dark theme that's easy on the eyes in low light, and a high-contrast sunlight theme that stays readable with the sun directly on the glass.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Display.
How to use it: switch any time — the whole app follows instantly, including the charts and map. Buttons and touch targets are sized for work gloves, and the layout is built for a landscape tablet mounted in the cab.
Feet and inches or meters and centimeters, switchable any time — every readout, dialog, and chart follows.
More →Grades in percent are universal, but everything else is regional — feet and inches in one country, meters and centimeters next door. The app is fully bilingual in units: every elevation, depth, distance, speed, and volume displays in your chosen system.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Units.
How to use it: pick imperial or metric once; every screen, dialog, chart axis, and export label follows. Switching later converts the display only — your recorded data is stored precisely underneath and loses nothing in the round trip.
The full app — every screen, dialog, and the built-in manual — in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
More →An operator shouldn't have to translate their tools in their head all day. The app is fully localized — every screen, button, warning dialog, and the complete built-in operator manual — in English, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Language; the app also follows the tablet's system language out of the box.
How to use it: set it once. Everything follows, including the What's New release notes with each update. This website works in all three languages too — use the language picker in the navigation.
A complete illustrated operator manual lives in the app, with a What's New section covering every update — no signal required.
More →The manual isn't a PDF on a website — it's a chapter-by-chapter, illustrated operator guide built into the app, covering every workflow from first connection to advanced calibration, and it works with zero signal.
Where you'll find it: the Manual tab in the app's sidebar, with a table of contents down the side and a What's New section at the end.
How to use it: jump to the chapter for the workflow you're running — each one has a quick start, a full walkthrough, and a troubleshooting list. After an update, check What's New for what changed, in your language, without leaving the field.
Something odd in the field? Send a session log to support in one tap — with the detail our team needs to answer fast.
More →"It did something weird yesterday" is hard to troubleshoot; a session log isn't. The app keeps detailed session logs — connections, GPS quality, grading activity, warnings — and sending one to support is a single tap.
Where you'll find it: Settings → Logs → Send Logs, with your name on it so support knows who's calling.
How to use it: reproduce the issue if you can, then send the log the same day. Support sees the app version, tablet model, and a timeline of what the app saw — usually enough to answer without a truck roll. Logs upload privately and never include anything but the app's own diagnostics.
Every feature on this page arrived as a free update, and that's the model — new capability ships to every kit, and previous versions stay available.
More →The kit is the purchase; the app is free and stays free. There's no subscription, no per-mode activation, no feature tiers — every capability on this page is in every install, and new features ship to everyone at once.
Where you'll find it: updates are posted on the app download page, with release notes in the app's What's New.
How to use it: download the new version when it suits you — mid-season you might wait, winter you might update the day it lands. Every previous version stays available for download, so if an update doesn't suit your setup you can step back while support sorts it out.